MOUNTAIN VIEW — Google said Thursday it will halt sales of its Glass eyewear, a move that could frustrate fans who bought the quirky head-mounted computer but which the company pitched as a “graduation” of the technology from a research experiment to a product that could be used in factories, hospitals and other workplace environments.

Monday will be the last day anyone can buy the $1,500 gadgets, which became available to the general public less than a year ago but found little appeal outside a small and devoted group of early adopters.

“In the meantime, we’re continuing to build for the future, and you’ll start to see future versions of Glass when they’re ready,” the search giant said in a statement.

Google Glass will continue to be led by Ivy Ross, a former jewelry designer, but the operation will move out of the secretive Google X research lab where it was developed and fall under the oversight of former Apple executive Tony Fadell, co-founder and CEO of the home automation company, Nest Labs, which Google acquired for $3.2 billion a year ago.

That signaled to some Google’s direction toward refining the use of Glass as a product that firms can adapt to specific uses in their workplaces.

“I think the move today reflects its maturity, moving Glass out of skunkworks into product development,” said CEO Jon Fisher of San Francisco-based live-streaming firm CrowdOptic, one of the first five certified developers that applied Glass to medical industries, sports stadiums and other uses.

Fisher said the technology is widely praised as a teaching tool by Glass-outfitted surgeons and surgical residents able to transmit what they are seeing and cutting at operating rooms at Stanford Hospital and the UC San Francisco Medical Center.

But the wearable computer and camera championed by Google co-founder Sergey Brin struggled to gain traction as a luxury consumer item last year and was frequently lampooned for its social awkwardness. Restaurants, bars and cinemas banned the device to protect customers who found them too intrusive. The bad press was epitomized by a Glass-wearing social media consultant who recorded her feud over the device last year with fellow patrons of a San Francisco bar.

“That stuff should have been tackled earlier, and people should have been better educated” on the acceptable ways to use Glass, Fisher said. “I thought it would take off more with consumers. Google hasn’t done everything perfectly.”

Even Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg seemed to pan the device this week during a visit to South America.

“I think it’s pretty easy to imagine that in the future we will have something that we can wear,” Zuckerberg said Wednesday during a question-and-answer session he held in Colombia. “It will look just like normal glasses — it won’t look weird like some of the stuff that exists today.”

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